Plan8’s favorite telecom policy wonkette and all around badass telecommunications law maven Susan Crawford has written up a piece over at Backchannel about Western Massachusetts’s fiber fiasco. This report sheds light on the national failure to provide high-speed digital access to rural America as the story of a fiber optic network project by thirty-one (31) Massachusetts towns told as their community project is indefinitely delayed because of state apathy and delays in approval and funding.

[The Hills Are Dead — Without the Sound of Internet Access – backchannel]